How To Finish The Last Two Rows Of Hardwood Floors

Cutting the last row of hardwood flooring.

How to finish the last two rows of hardwood floors.

Each row from the second until the next to last row is nailed through the tongues only. Flooring specialists use a routine procedure for nailing all boards in an installation except for those in the first and last rows. Use 1 2 inch spacers to assist in maintaining the 1 2 inch expansion gap between the first row of flooring planks and the wall. Pull rows tight with pry bar tapping lightly with mallet to pull tighter.

Previous mryoucandoityouself video https youtu be z gg56guzwm th. When you install the hardwood floors and get to the other side of the room you may have to cut the boards down the length to finish the last row. Then hold nailer at 45 degree angle to floor shoot into tongue of flooring every 4 6 inches repeat process until back of nailer almost touches wall. The challenge when.

Nail down close to a wall. I don t do hardwood all the time but when the flooring nailer won t fit i switch to the 15 ga then that don t fit use the 18 ga with some dabs of glue then you re usually close enough to glue the last row or two and drive wedges to hold until dry. Then place the remaining rows of wood onto floor filling gap to wall without nailing. If your flooring is very narrow drive one centered row of nails across the boards instead of two parallel rows.